On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:59:51PM +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote: > 2014-03-05 7:21 GMT+01:00 Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com>:
> > Hi Julien, > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:24:38AM +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote: > > > I would like to propose Lubuntu 14.04 for a 3 years LTS support. I > > > prepared a wiki page for this purpose : > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/14.04/LTS-Proposal > > > Let me know if you have any questions on it. > > You mention on this page that the LXDE components are already in > > maintenance > > mode, with a major migration in the future. Do you expect upstream to > > provide security support for the current versions over the next three > > years? > > Do you expect the Lubuntu team to do the work to provide updates for any > > security issues that arise? > Thanks for the review. > I'm confident that upstream will provide security updates if it's > necessary. There is at least 2 experimented developers who have a good > knowledge of the actual LXDE code base (GTK+ one). We also have a good > relationship with upstream, they are quite active recently, and LXDE is not > a young project (they exist since 2009). However, no one from upstream is > sponsored by any companies, so I can't guarantee that the support will be > perfect during the 3 years. For any emergency, the Lubuntu team may act as > a backup, but I sincerely don't think it will be necessary. > For the Lubuntu team, we currently have only 1 active people with upload > rights (me). Like upstream, I can't guarantee 100 % support during 3 years > (who know what can happen in 3 years), but I'm willing to do my best during > this period (I would have not propose LTS support if I wasn't prepare to > deal with this 3 years period :-)) Also, 1 upstream developer contribute to > Debian, packaging some LXDE parts, so if really an emergency appears (I > don't hope this, that mean I have a serious problem), he may be able to > deal with all the packaging stuff, and he will only need review and > sponsorship. > Let me know if you need more information. Thanks, Julien. With this explanation, I'm +1 for recognizing Lubuntu as an LTS release. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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